David Adès' luminous and honest collection, Afloat in Light, is chiefly a celebration of fatherhood and of paying attention, utilising Simone Weil's notion that 'attention is the rarest and purest fo
Worldwide in scope and covering the second half of the 20th century, this book provides biographies and discographies of some 500 conductors and composers of light and popular orchestral music.
The Impact of Africa looks at changes in Western perspectives on African art and representations of Africans, and their paradoxical interpretation as both primitive and modern. Topics include photogra
